created 11 municipalities between 1994 and 2004. Using territories that sought, but failed to, achieve independence as … controls, we find that schools in newly created municipalities, on average, experienced a standard deviation decline of 0.2 in … classroom teachers and school management teams in newly created municipalities. In contrast, we found that reducing the size of …

during the last decade produced higher enforcement of labor regulations. The paper computes before-after estimates of the …

This paper provides new measures of labor law enforcement across the world. The constructed dataset shows that … countries with more stringent de jure regulation tend to enforce less. While civil law countries tend to have more stringent de …

statutory law. In this article we explore the mechanisms behind the deforestation and try to uncover mechanisms to reverse the …Deforestation in the North western part of Pakistan is a long standing problem. The Forestry Department, as formal … process has not resulted in less deforestation. From the policy perspective this has been leading to stated intentions to …